SC - Re: A couple questions . . .

[Aine of Wyvernwood]

they also had a thriving industry making salt from sea water.  I distincly
remember reading an article in Scientific American years ago about that.
Seems that about the time of the first major ''barbarian'' invasions south to
Rome, there had been a global warming.   The oceans had risen a few feet and
flooded the salt beds on the norther German coast,  The barbarian tribes moved
south in search of salt, and ended up sacking Rome.
aine

Mark Harris wrote:

> ciorstan said:
>
> But on the other hand, we're talking of a cookery custom of the Germanic
> people, whose territory in even early period contained useful things
> like the Hallstadt/Hallein salt mines in Austria above Salzburg ('salt
> city')-- and if memory serves, Poland has salt mines as well. The
> Hallstadt mines in particular have been worked since the late Bronze
> Age.
>
> >>>>>>
> There was a big discussion on the SCA-Arts mail list last spring or so.
> It turns out that most of the salt used in the Middle Ages apparently
> came from evaporating seawater. The mines you speak of were mined in
> Roman times, but by the Middle Ages they had mined close to the water
> table and it wasn't until later when mining technology improved that
> they again became active as rock salt mines rather than brine mines.
>
> I, too, have been curious about salt mining in the Middle Ages and have
> it on my research list. Those interested in this might want to look at
> these two files in the COMMERCE section of Stefan's Florilegium:
>
> salt-msg          (23K)  8/11/97    Medieval salt production and use.
> salt-comm-art     (18K)  1/ 9/97    "Salt of the Earth" by Lord Xaviar.
>
> Lord Xaviar has promised me another article, specifically on medieval
> salt production but I haven't seen it yet.
>
> These salt mines of which ciorstan speaks do have a nice set of web
> pages with photos highlighting their tours through the mines.
>
> Stefan li Rous
> markh at risc.sps.mot.com
>
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